Tom Sawyer Manuscript Facsimile

The manuscript of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in Mark Twain's handwriting has been published for the first time in facsimile by the Georgetown University Library and University Publications of America. This unique manuscript was given to Georgetown in 1934 by Mrs. Nicholas Brady of New York City when she inherited it from her late husband, who was a collector of rare books and manuscripts. Apparently Nicholas Brady acquired the Tom Sawyer manuscript by purchase from the estate of Walter Bliss, who was the son of Elisha Bliss, Mark Twain's American publisher. The manuscript has eight hundred fifty-nine leaves and is in excellent condition. The facsimile is in two volumes bound and boxed. An introductory essay by Professor Paul Baender of the University of Iowa was prepared for this occasion and is included in the first volume. Publication of the Tom Sawyer manuscript was accomplished by the interest and support of the founder and president of the University Publications of America, Georgetown alumnus John Moscato ('73 AB), who is a Library Associates trustee and library benefactor.